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For the same reason that "God" didn't die out with the rest of the gods. By declaring itself The saurus, rather than just another saurus, the Thesaurus initiated a long term trend towards mono-dinosaurism. As societies integrated through increased trade and technology, the poly-dinoism worldview lost plausibility. The simpler conception of an all-powerful reference book of synonyms rapidly gained adherents up until the invention of the printing press (circa 1439), when it finally achieved ubiquity by replacing "dinosaur" with "obsolete."

I've done some quick back-of-the-newspaper-I-sleep-on-at-night-under-the-bridge calculations and have discovered that if you smoosh together two groups of 5 kids, you get ten kids, and I reckon that means that two of them will be facing hunger. Scaling this up, let's say there's a billion kids on the planet. This gives us 800 million kids who are doing fine, and 200 million that aren't.

Now, if we turn around one in every 5 kids, we're creating a problem with 80% of the kids we turn around, and solving the problem for the other 20%. Grouping the billion kids into fives and turning around a random one, we get:

• one in five sets of 5 kids are fixed
• four in five sets of 5 kids get another one facing the wrong way.

So where we had 5/25 hunger-oriented kids before, now we have 8/25.

((8/25) * 100) - ((5/25) * 100) = 12% increase in problem kids (1B * (8/25)) + 200M = 520M kids now hungry

But let's fix this so that we're only turning around one in every ten kids. Now we're only causing a problem with 8/50 kids!

((8/50) * 100) - ((5/50) * 100) = 6% increase in problem kids (1B * (8/50)) + 200M = 360M kids now hungry

Now, some of you are saying, "well doesn't this bottom out at turning around 0 kids and having 200M hungry?" You're correct so long as we're dealing in turnaround values greater than zero - but let's see how many negative kids we would have to turn around to get that number from 200M to 0. We can get the slope of the turnaround line using our slope formula:

(520M - 200M) / (1 - 0) = 320M

All we need then is the point where y = 0 - the point where 0 kids are hungry. So:

0M = (320M * x) + 200M -200M = 320M * x -200M / 320M = x x = -0.625

Therefore, if we randomly turn around every -0.625 in 5 kids, we'll solve world hunger! Q.E.D.

EDIT: Graphzzz

Probably used the color "Sun Yellow"
https://www.amazon.com/Krylon-K05180607-ColorMaster-Primer-Yellow/dp/B000VOT8RQ
As the name implies it gives off light like the sun does

void definitelyPossible(boolean i) { boolean fact = i; if (fact == true) { print("Big"); } else if (fact == false) { fact = true; } }

^^^^^Processing

I don't think so. But shitty science requires shitty experimentation.

You need to drink half of your coffee black and then add milk for drinking the second half. Then figure out which half of your mouth is affected by the black coffee and which by the milk coffee and compare stains.

Sorry for the real science but look at the section labeled "How many people have ever lived on earth?"

> 6% of all people ever born are alive today.

That means the STD of life infected unto anatomically modern humans only has a 94% mortality rate so far. Then again, 100% mortality is a wet dream of mine.

The Ad Block Plus devs are well aware of this issue, and they're trying to avoid it. Take a look at the Acceptable Ads page on their site:

> Starting with Adblock Plus 2.0 you can allow some of the advertising not considered annoying to be viewed. By doing this you support websites that rely on advertising but choose to do it in a non-intrusive way.

> Why is this feature enabled by default?

> Unfortunately, this is the only way to accomplish the goals described above. But if the majority of Adblock Plus users have this function activated, advertisers will have the incentive to produce better ads.

Pi isn't actually infinite. It's actually less than four, but it takes infinitely long to get through. That means it would take eternity to eat any, which is why it's more practical to eat pie instead.

Sadly most animals forget to wake back up after dying. However, as is scientificallicky proven, cats have 9 lives, since they tend to sleep a lot anyway and have more practise at waking up.

According to this page there are approximately 600 million domestic cats in the world. We simply don't know how many living creatures are on the planet as a whole, but this page here gives the most accurate estimate I've seen of roughly zillions. A zillion is definitely over a bajillion which is also over a trillion so let's conservatively say there are 1 trillion living things alive right now (I am not including bacteria in this figure but it does include politicians).

So it works out at 600,000,000 * 8 cat lives (since they won't wake up from the last one) = 4,800,000,000 lives. Divide that into 1,000,000,000,000 and you get 0.48% of animals that wake back up, or 99.52% of animals that don't.

Therefore the answer to your question is that cats are assholes.

Abstract

Freakiness is well documented in the literature; however, most studies have addressed making a girl more -- not less -- freaky[1]. Professor Richard James, an authority in the field[2], reported that "once you get her off the street (ow girl!)," your girl will become superfreaky. So to make her less freaky, try putting her back on the street.

Other suggestions:

• Do not be with her backstage with her girlfriends in a limousine.

• Do take her home to mother.

• Do keep her well clear of incense wine and candles.

Note that, should you follow this advice, it is hypothesized that your girl may no longer be "all right for" you. Further study is needed to test this hypothesis.

Square roots are most commonly associated with the Pi Plant, a commonly cultivated variety of Rhubarb that is famous for always sprouting in mid March. The tangy flavor perfectly compliments sweet fruits like strawberry or peach.

There are some trees that have been known to develop square roots, but when harvested they just become natural logs...

This is a common misconception.

Much like you can't catch the same cold twice, you can not catch the same yawn twice. Yawns mutate over time, this can be anywhere from 30 seconds to several days. Which is why you might think it would work like that if you've yawned, someone else caught it and yawned then you yawned again. In that time it mutated in their body. But you can not catch it again from yourself.

Actually, it should be cobear, but since in Venezuela cobear means "bullshit" they had to change the name to "polar bear" why do you think they are white? its because they are opposite.

If these two bears touch, they would dissapear

I recommend doing a Google Scholar Search for something you don't like. Then pick and link to 4 or 5 articles that sound obscure (you don't have to read them) and require you to buy subscriptions to the journal to view the entire thing.

When they complain about not being able to read it, tell them real scientists have subscriptions, and maybe they shouldn't bother talking until they are a scientist.

> The sad thing is it's actually a better idea than you would think.

Tried it and:

>It would take a desktop PC about an hour to crack your password

Source: https://howsecureismypassword.net/

However, if we used your comment 'The sad thing is it's actually a better idea than you would think.'

>It would take a desktop PC about a quattuortrigintillion years to crack your password

Phrases are better than you think. And easier to remember.

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Don't worry, there's no black magic going on, or anything of that nature. They simply tie everything and everyone down:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g657101-i118513563-Wairarapa_Greater_Wellington_North_Island.html

Every nail has a point that is used to drive into the wood. On the opposite end of the nail is a bit that is flared out:

Point side.________Head Side

<===========[]

If you hit the nail on the head, it drives the point into the wood, instead of missing.

I've Quoted one of my references below. > Hit the nail on the head : Phrases Meaning:

>Get to the precise point. Do or say something exactly right.

>Example:

>Origin:

>No one knows the exact origin of this phrase. What is known is that it is extremely old. It appears in The Book of Margery Kempe, circa 1438. This was an account of the life of religious visionary Margery Kempe and is considered to be the earliest surviving autobiography written in English:

>"If I hear any more these matters repeated, I shall so smite the nail on the head that it shall shame all her supporters."

>Kempe's meaning in that citation isn't entirely clear. Some have interpreted her 'hit the nail on the head' as 'speak severely'. The current 'get to the heart of the matter' meaning is unambiguous in a later reference, from the end of the following century. Henry Buttes' Dyets drie dinner, 1599, includes this line:

>"His chiefe pride resteth in hitting the nayle on the head with a quainte Epithite."

Reference1

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>fag 1 (fg)

>n.

>1.

>a. A student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class.

That's terrible. Emancipation for the fags!

If the lightsaber crystal was green, like green kryptonite, or if they actually used kryptonite as the crystal, then Superman would melt like a hot knife through even hotter dog droppings.

• Superman's been injured by lasers before (see most aliens he's fought), so an extremely focused laser like a lightsaber could possibly hurt him if applied directly to the skin for a long enough time.

• If he were under the effects of kryptonite, when even bullets can hurt him, then a lightsaber could definitely chop off parts of his body.

No

• What type of radiation does the lightsaber emit? It's light, and Superman gets power from the sun, so the lightsaber could be a refreshing lamp.

• It would just burn off his clothes, like in Superman 2, but it wouldn't hurt him.

• He uses lasers (his own heat vision) to shave himself, so the best the lightsaber could do would to singe his chest hair, or give him a nice shave down there.

• Jedis can't actually cut through "everything" with the sword. Example: the big huge door in Episode I. They had to jam in their lightsabers and "melt" a doorway inside the door. The sword was fast to go into the door because they applied all the force to the tip, but was slow cutting because the Jedis are only so strong. Picture you cutting through a watermelon. In the same principle, a lightsaber technically might be able to cut through Superman, but there's nobody strong enough to force it through. Unless you somehow get the Hulk to use a lightsaber. But the Hulk doesn't exist.

Verdict: Superman wins!

Reference: http://gizmodo.com/351747/can-a-lightsaber-cut-through-superman

As you can tell from the brand name "IFIXIT", this is Apple's competitor to Microsoft's now discontinued Fix It Center. With Apple having dropped 32 bit support in "Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" in the year 2011, you can unfortunately not use them with 32 bit system.

Computers agrees with you:

#include<stdio.h>

int main(){ int zero = 0; int one = 1; if(zero = one) printf("zero equals one\n"); else printf("zero does not equal one\n"); return 0; } prints:

zero equals one

No, they're not.

> GENDER: 1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior. Compare sex (def 1). 2. a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and it's based on the individual's personal awareness or identity.

> SEX: 1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.

You may or may not be aware but speakers can be used in reverse as microphones source

Well the prinicple of stereo audio works in a similar fashion when reversed. When you place the ear bud marked L in your right ear and R in your left you will be surprised that you can actually still hear the music. However, this is actually an auditory illusion. What is happening is that your brain is being tricked into behaving like a microphone and broadcasting the audio out of your ears back into the headphones. This may seem strange but remember a speaker can be a microphone and a microphone can be a speaker.

Now I'm probably a little older than you guys but back in the day, before IPODs, MP3 players, CD players, BLUERAY and DVDs we had a technology known as SonyWalkman or ask the cool kids used to say Walkmon. With this you could play audio as well as easily record it. (You can actually do this with all audio technology but after the Audio Control Act of 1992 it became much more difficult.)

Long story short, if you can find one of these Walkmon's (they sell on ebay but hard to find a working one before 1992 without a V-chip installed.) You can actually plug reverse the L and R earbuds and record your own brain playing whatever music you are humming or thinking in your head! This is how a lot of 80s bands made all of that funky early techno music.

Anyways, just thought I'd give a legit answer here since not many people on reddit were born before 1998.

Actually, that's not a lizard at all. That is a green house rat.

You are correct that Time is Money. Money is a magazine published by Time Inc.. Time Inc. (which is also the publisher of Time magazine, obviously) is owned by a company called Time Warner Inc. If you were investing in a "time" stock, I would advise you to look into TWX. Happy investing!

Everyone has got this wrong so far, the clue is in the suffix 'naire' you see. 'naire' is an English carryover of the Irish word 'náire' which means to be ashamed or shameful.

So, as all Millionaires are truly ashamed by their wealth and all Legionnaires are ashamed of their disease you just need to be ashamed of your question and tadah! You're a Questionnaire!

The word 'gifts' takes 5 bytes, so multiply that by the world population. At the moment, that would be 36934325000 bytes or 36.934325 gigabytes, so you could store it easily on a microSD card. If you also want to save Santa and Jesus, just add 10 more bytes.

I know that this is /r/shittyaskscience, but you should check out this contest to compress an image into 140 characters.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-encoding-challenge

According to this peer-reviewed Answers.com comment, the weight of an adult head is about 8 pounds. Thus, by beheading yourself and then disposing of your corpulent corpse, you can dramatically decrease your weight. Those girls won't be able to keep their hands off the new, fitter you!

They used stuff like olive oil and in fact the oldest known erotic manuscript is Egyptian

This image is from a physics game called Phun. The game evolved into more of a learning game called Algodoo. Its a ton of fun if you like physics sandbox games. I believe you can even play it on smart phones now. http://www.algodoo.com/

You have to know how lightning works to fully understand how to let it flow properly.

Many people make analogies to peanut butter when explaining lightning (since they're basically the same things at different speeds) but it really pays to research.

This suggests lightning follows rocket wire stuff, so you'd have to ingest rocket wires .

Now comes the problem of designing the internal shapes you want with the rocket wires. To be honest, i wasn't sure what to do, but this article helps a lot. You'll need a couple of teeth to move around the wires in the pattern you want.

After that, you just wait out for your new design!

You can buy stock here. How will this help me?

(warning: non-shitty science ahead)

>the generators do not use equations, and are impossible to predict.

Demonstrably false. If you get enough inputs, you can predict all future answers that a PRNG gives you. If you know 624 consecutive outputs of a Mersenne twister, for instance, it's possible to predict all its output.

In fact, every possible "generated" number inside of a computer must come from a function of some sort. The only way to get a true random number is to measure something outside of the processor, for instance random radio noise.

Chrysales. In Latin -us is pluralised as -i, -is as -es, -a as -ae, but all that doesn't matter, because my spellchecker says it should be chrysalises. It also says spellchecker should be spell checker, but the Oxford Dictionary disagrees. Please ignore my spellchecker.

Merriam Webster says the plural is chrysalises or chrysalides. Again my spellchecker doesn't recognise the second option. It can go fuck itself.

A person's virginity wave function, represented by Ψ(r, t), where r is their social standing over time and relative to the group known collectively as "Chads" encompasses all possible situations where the only consistent characteristic is that their continued behavior is correlated with a decreased chance of getting laid.

Yes I'll put links below where you can get your own and even a real live one who had her own social media

Amazon http://www.amazon.com/4M-Science-Your-Pocket-Volcano/dp/B003OVL8V2

Twitter of hers https://www.twitter.com/pocketvolcano

The rise of Amazon shopping has given rise to the number of people who are buying the budget chewing gum who soon learn why it is a budget chewing gum and deposit it on the sidewalk.

All his themes are nice but I hate that fucking drop shadow. WHERE'S THE LIGHT COMING FROM? Like even the SUN has a drop shadow in the one picture... I don't know why 90% of new icon packs do this. I found Merus and have been happy with it.

Ok, so getting evidence from this reliable source, we could work out that since it takes ~48 full grown trees to make 500 rolls of toilet paper, and 48/500=0.096, therefore meaning 0.096 full grown trees to make one roll.

In the next step we must work out how many times you wipe your ass. Luckily, our reputable source supplies data to work out an average for that as well. Saying that you are on the average and use 49 rolls a year, that is 0.1342465753 rolls a day. You probably wipe your ass, say, 4 times a day. That is 0.03356164383 rolls a wipe.

Now for the final step in the equation. 0.03356164383*0.096=3.221917808E-3, which, according to this, 0.003221917808.

So, in conclusion, you use around 0.003 full grown trees every time you wipe your ass.

No. By the time you get superpowers from smoking it will be too late, because the uprising will already have occurred. You will need a faster method to dose yourself with radiation.

I recommend this link, which will teach you how to extract radioactive americium from smoke detectors.

After you have several grams of americium, you may either inject it intravenously with a dose of heroin or consume it in a blueberry milkshake.

This.

A scientist counted all the avocados that could exist in a guaca-mole.

The resulting number is famous as avocados number or approximately 6.023 x 10^23 in a guaca-mole.

Today scientists who study these have taken on some of the characteristics of their subjects and are known as the elusive mole people

This photo looks like it was taken in some kind of food processing plant. Unless I miss my understanding of OSHA color coding, this is a food waste/grease disposal pipe. You should be able to use household drain cleaners such as Drano Kitchen Crystals and some hot tap water to clear this blockage. The instructions will advise you to use hot water and that can not be understated. For a blockage of this size, I would use three tablespoons of the Drano product and four boiling gallons of water. Add this to the upper part of the pipe (not that there is nothing above the gloop blockage) and it should disolve within 15 minutes.

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Evil people that haven't confessed their sins is the leading cause of boat sinkages. The guilt not only weighs down the boat, but it depresses the fish lowering their metabolism and thus reducing CO2 production. The combined affect when exceeding the density equilibrium causes the boat to sink.

This is why fisherman often drink because it is a well known fact that alcohol is one of the best treatments for depression such that when it comes to making boat floats it is generally regarded by experts a necessary preventative measure.

Sources:

• Chemical Physics Letters Volume 360, Issues 3-4, 10 July 2002, Pages 229-234
• American Journal of Preventive Medicine Volume 16, Issue 4, May 1999, Pages 278-282

Assuming a 60 gallon tub, 16 cups to a gallon, 960 cups to a tub, one pound of Spaghetti yields 10.7 cups of cooked spaghetti, you'd need about 90 pounds of spaghetti to fill the tub, and 3/4 of that would be about 67 pounds of dry spaghetti.

Luckily it appears you find consciousness after you lose it. Worried about health risks I did a quick Web MD search and there is a way to get a new consciousness if you do not find it.

http://www.algodoo.com/

It's a super powerful and free physics sandbox. There are downloadable creations and lessons (designed for in-school use by teachers, but anyone can check them out) and places to share your own works.

One of my favorite things to dick around with, but it does have real applications too.

Jedis are well-trained, and have transformed all of their muscle into pink muscle, which drastically increases their mass.

No. They get close together because they are doing an evil demon summoning dance, which extracts all the thermal energy in Antarctica and distributing it to one another.

Santa sauce

I must state before continuing my expertise is in Relative Quantum Electrochromatics. My medical training is only limited to my medical degree from WebMD University. I can tell you now. Do not go outside. This is very important. You need to go to Amazon and buy a gas mask. I know it is expensive, but this is your health we are messing with. This is a very serious condition boogeritosis noseeitis can be fatal under the wrong conditions. Hold your breath and retrieve the package when it arrives. Don the mask and then proceed quickly to your closest medical treatment facility. This can be cured but will take some time. Remain calm and everything will be fine. Trust me I'm a scientist and a scientist is always fine.

Edit: Just noticed that selection on Amazon is currently out of stock. Here is an alternative that is still acceptable. Honeywell is a good company for this sort of thing. I trust them and by the commutitve property since I trust them and you should trust a scientist you should trust the company.

Don't be ridiculous, we all know the Out/In Fridge problem (whether fruit, in a room with a fridge left open and running, keeps better sitting on the counter or inside the open fridge) has stumped everyone from Euclid to Galileo to Newton to Einstein. And we've all read the hilarious anecdote in `Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman' about how this problem had stumped him and his friends, because they could come up with reasonable arguements for both possibilities (out of the fridge or in the fridge), and how he had built a replica of the thought experiment in the Princeton graduate lounge, and how the results were inconclusive (although, according to Feynman, all the other graduate students agreed the results of his experiment were hilarious tom-foolery and totally not a waste of all coffee cream and left-over chinese takeout which happened to also be in the fridge at the time, and that, incidentally, Feynman wasn't in any possible way a bit of a sexist, self-aggrandizing dickhead. They all agreed on this.).

If Feynman couldn't solve the problem on a lark in his spare time then it is literally hopeless.

Yes

• blue whales are often seen together in male-female pairs, but it is not known if these are breeding pairs.

Sounds like blue balls to me.

You'd have hair removal cream with heroin in it.

Spiders evolved on earth over a period of hundreds of millions of years. Octopuses arrived on Earth in the mid 18^th Century as detailed in this video most probably from Europa.

Computer Science Major Here:

First off, this is a gorilla, not a monkey.

Secondly, on changing color, you simply mix up some Manic Panic Flash Lighting and apply it to the gorilla according to the instructions. Rinse and shampoo. Play some soothing music for the gorilla, as it tends to sting the more sensitive areas.

Then apply the appropriate Manic Panic dye in whatever colors you choose and rinse in cool water.

It's best not to shampoo after applying the dye as it will fade. If you must, use a color safe shampoo.

Ok, you want properly shitty knife stuff? Here ya go.

Because France is pretty gay, obviously. That's why General George S. Patton said, &quot;I'd rather have the German Army in front of me than the French Army behind me." He was worried about his pooper.

I had a moment, so I thought I would have a go at this. The mass of Jupiter is 1.89e27 kg according to Wikipedia, so we need to add 74 times this, or 1.39e29 kg of mass. How many matches is this?

The obvious question is what kind of match. I'm in England at the moment, so let's use Football matches (soccer for you Americans). There are 11 players on a team, so 22 players in a match. Again from Wikipedia, the average weight of a person is 62.0 kg (holy crap I'm actually below average, I'm so proud), so one match weighs 1,364 kg. This means it will take 1.03e26 matches to provide the required mass.

How long will this take? According to this guy, there are 380 matches in a season, and everyone knows there are four seasons in a year, so adding 1.03e26 matches at a rate of 1520 matches per year will take...

A long time.

Scholarly article search

provides this as a first result.

Here's a quote from the abstract:

>Discussion centers on possible mechanisms for this reduction of the own-race bias, including improvements in holistic processing and promotion of a common in-group identity due to positive emotions.

So basically, it has to do with the fact you're more emotional when you're older and can't handle all the new faces and you think they're younger.

I looked at some scholarly articles on expanding

see here

and I found that one says:

>Six to eight weeks after the trial, patients in the experimental group reported fewer limitations in physical and role-related activities (p less than 0.05),

which applied to your question indicates it's possible, but only in trials. So, when the final uinverse comes along, we'll probabyl see something with p less than 0.05, you know?

I hate to disappoint you but I'm gonna smack some real science on you here. In Minnesota we have THUNDERSNOW quite often. It especially dangerous around the Christmas Holiday Season because the lightning is so attracted to the Star on top of the Christmas Trees. It is the 25^th largest cause of house fires in December in Minnesota and the surrounding states.

Also, some wireless keyboards double as toasters.

Puts the excess heat the CPU/GPU generates to a good use.

It does if you do it right.

there is a song by J. Williamez that covers this exact topic. The song is called "time machine". The chorus is something to the effect of "I'm not gay, I just really like to masturbate. And with the advent of new technology, like time travel, I could be a one-man orgy. I'd have my cock, and eat it too".

Holy shit, link

so your answer to what I said in which took into account all people who have ever lived or died and you reduced it a sample size of only 11 people and of which you state that 10 of those 11 are dead. Your logic is impeccable too bad its ridiculous. Here is a little something to prove how wrong you are. Notice how there are almost double the amount of births daily than deaths.

Well, as they say, OP = fag.

Because we'd never use a slur, we must assume that we're referring to a bundle of sticks. Everyone knows that dogs like sticks and chase mailmen. Therefore, by the transitive property, we know that mailmen hate sticks. So don't blame OP, it's really just a systematic bias against him.

Edit: mobile formatting is an struggle

according to site traffic data on Alexa, 45% of traffic come from the US. Malaysia isn't even on the list there, so I'd safely guess its less then 1%. Based on these percentages, there is a larger portion of reddit that cares about US news and a smaller percentage that cares about Malaysia, so really its just that smaller percent that is slacking.

First, turn into a ghost. Dying might be required.

Afterwards, write something using your own hands. I'll call this "postscript" ("post" because is after your death, "script" because it is your handwriting).

Then, just use the Ghostscript tool to convert to PDF.

Not off the top of my head. Sorry. Maybe something like this one, but I just did a quick google/amazon search. I haven't read it.

I'm a software engineer, of a sub-faction that've been gender-traitors on this issue for a long time, since Fred Brooks first began to pull back the veil with his seminal essay "The Mythical Man-Month"

Memory foam is limited by the sizes of the blocks that you eat. You should try smaller pieces, there's shredded foam out in the market these days which are great to snack on

Using crayons is wrong, the blu ray player easily spots the fraud. You should submerge the DVD in hair dye for an even color.

I recommend electric blue it did such a good job my blu ray player started playing in 4K

Nononononono you need one of these

It's a question with valid roots, for sure. Several rounds of rabbit-introductions to Australia took place, each failing to expand in population due to various adaptability shortcomings. Then, the European rabbit (from the south - ie: Spain) was introduced and successfully became a top-tier destructive species within a few decades.

See here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_rabbit

And, if you like to consume 30+ hours of incredibly frustrating, anxiety-inducing, well-researched examples of how societies collapse (including the specific aforementioned introduction of this destructive bunny), then head on over to Jared Diamond's 'Collapse' here: http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/B0007PC4ZM

My memory is trying to tell me I saw a TV with this feature built into a Japanese TV few years ago, but I can't find it after seconds of exhausting Googling. In penance, here's a couple of alternatives:

Dish Network has this feature today: -&gt;

And here's a Samsung Remote App: -&gt;

(In this case, if you lose your control, just call your phone from another phone and hope you didn't mute it...)